orthoepy
Example Sentences
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The orthography is according to Jack’s orthoepy, for there are various spellings of the word.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
This unsettled state of our orthography, and what it often depended on, our orthoepy, was an inconvenience detected even at a very early period.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
It has a certain crude and primitive grammar, but in point of orthoepy is extremely difficult.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Ambrose Bierce
It is true that the pedantry of scholarship has put its sovereign veto against the practice of writing words as they are spoken, even could the orthoepy ever have been settled by an unquestioned standard.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
In this case it is opposed to orthoepy, orthography, syntax, and the other parts of grammar.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
